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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for July 18th, 2011 - "DonationCoder Plus"

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 31, 2011, 02:23 PM »

Fantastic newsletter, as always!

As a post-press news bulletin, hamradio has won July's high-scorer challenge for the Kyrathaba's Hangman contest, and received DonationCredits as a reward.  Everyone be sure to congratulation Carroll.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Edit Text Anywhere with Your Favorite Editor [Freeware]

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 30, 2011, 08:37 PM »

@Channing: very, very nice! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: .CDF = interactive document file format from Wolfram / Mathematica

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 30, 2011, 08:21 PM »

Watched the videos.  Very interesting.  Wonder what the chances are that this will become mainstream?

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Living Room / Re: It's Time to Fix Subversion Merge

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 30, 2011, 03:17 PM »

Didn't they already fix it a while ago? But they called it something else...  Like Mercurial or Git or something.

Heh!

Good one.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Kyrathaba's Hangman

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 30, 2011, 03:12 PM »

I'll award the DonationCredits when this count falls below 129 days...

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Kyrathaba's Hangman

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 29, 2011, 07:34 AM »

Just two days remaining before the first $5 of DonationCredits is disbursed to the high-scorer.  That is, at the time of this post, hamradio!!

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General Software Discussion / Re: The sad death of a developer

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 29, 2011, 07:31 AM »

Since FF saves my log-in info, and DC is set as one of my homepage tabs, I'm not sure how you'd accomplish distinguishing that she's not me.  A separate log-in ID/password would work, but adds additional complexity on her end.  Of course, I'm just thinking out loud.  This may not even be something you'd want DC to offer, as it's not really software specific.  But if one of our resident web-coding experts could do some PHP magic...

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General Software Discussion / Re: The sad death of a developer

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 29, 2011, 07:26 AM »

You know, I'd been thinking about this very sort of think a lot lately.  I'd like to have some mechanism to allow my wife to log-on to a site I frequent, such as DC, using my username and password and one extra parameter (to show she's not me), and it would take her automatically to my Last Wishes page.

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Living Room / Re: How to deal with syncing multiple versions of a file from multiple sources?

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 29, 2011, 07:15 AM »

Haven't checked out Bazaar.  May be great, dunno.  I have worked with SVN using TortoiseSVN (FOSS).  Even I was able to get up to speed on it in a few minutes' time, so you should find it a quick-study, should you choose to go that route.

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Living Room / Re: It's Time to Fix Subversion Merge

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 28, 2011, 06:09 PM »

Hurray!

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Search a folder of text files for an expression, copy the line of text

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 28, 2011, 07:30 AM »

Looks like this thread could be marked "Finished".  Nice work, Target 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: [Request] Tell me who said what first!

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 28, 2011, 07:18 AM »

It's basically a string-manipulation/regular-expressions task.  C# is quite capable in this area, but as Ath said, it would take some time to code it.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Found Money

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 28, 2011, 06:15 AM »

Localization would make the app more broadly usable.  Thanks for the suggestion, Ath!  I'll keep it in mind for a future update 

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / NANY 2012 Release: Found Money

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 27, 2011, 08:39 PM »

NANY 2012 Entry Information

Application Name	Found Money
Version	1.0.1.6
Short Description	manage your pocket change or "found money" and track it over time...
Supported OSes	Windows XP forward
Setup File	link to download setup file
PAD file URL	http://kyrathaba.dcm...y/FoundMoney_PAD.xml
System Requirements	requires .NET 4.0 Framework (installer will D/L and install it if needed)
Author Info	coded by kyrathaba | Profile page | Kyrathaba DC page | author of Kyrathaba's Source Code Line Counter. My past NANY entries include: Crocus Contacts, Blackjack, and NANY Excuse Manager.
Description	We all do it: find a dime on the sidewalk, or a quarter in the floorboard of our vehicle.  Lots of people pick these up as "found money".  Superstitious people sometimes make sure the coin is heads-up first, though  And many people empty their pockets at the end of the work-day, and save their pocket change.  I myself have a separate coffee mug for each coin type: pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters.  Naturally, each mug is a DC mug... I've been doing this for a long time.  Several times over the years I've emptied a big jar of coins and cashed out $200 to $350 at my local bank.  Wouldn't it be nice if there was a program, preferably FREE, that tracked this "found money" (or the money your kid sticks in his or her piggy-bank)?  Well, thankfully, DC member caddo requested just such an app and, intrigued, I created it.  I give you "Found Money"!  For anyone wanting background on this app, you may refer to [url=https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=27207.0]this link.
Features	add each "find", specifying the number of each type of coin and bill found, the location it was found, and the date. edit previously saved files (maybe you accidentally assigned the wrong date, or got the number of quarters wrong, etc.) show and browse data for all saved records, or for a subset of those records falling inclusively between two dates intelligently query the records: "Now what day was that when I found the silver dollar in the men's lavatory?" pie charts visually show the ratio of coins to other coins, bills to other bills alongside the pie charts is a textual breakdown of coin/bill percentages, both of total coins vs bills, and in terms of overall money
Screenshots
Installation	use the Inno Setup installer
Using the application	Any special pointers about using the app should go here...
Uninstalling	use Windows' Add/Remove Programs applet, or your favorite uninstaller, or the built-in Inno Setup uninstaller
Known Issues	none known: please report any your find, preferably with specific steps to reproduce the error, and a screenshot of the problem

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Kyrathaba's Hangman

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 26, 2011, 09:44 PM »

There is less than one week until the first montly high-score prize is awarded!  Right now, hamradio is in the lead to receive it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SpiderOak - very nice people =)

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 26, 2011, 09:36 PM »

Re my earlier posts^:  It's been two weeks, and no response from SpiderOak engineer.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: App that keeps track of money you find

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 26, 2011, 08:53 PM »

Okay, major update!  Version 1.0.1.2 brings you querying of saved records.  Wanna find all records containing pennies less than four, dimes greater than zero, and quarters greater than 1?  No problem!

You can search all records, or limit your search to a a subset of records falling inclusively in between two dates.

Hint:  You can use "Help"->"About"->"Update" to update your installation to the newest version.

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Living Room / Re: Want to see impressive numbers?

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 25, 2011, 09:18 PM »

It's like George Carlin said, we live in a country where the rich have most of the money, pay none of the taxes; the middle class pays most of the taxes and has a little of the money; the poor are there ... just to scare the shit out of the middle class!

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Living Room / Re: Am I alone in not using or wanting to use the "Cloud" ...

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 25, 2011, 08:27 PM »

I understand that there's a variant of poker that uses buffalo chips... 

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Living Room / Re: BoingBoing Update on Bitcoin Alternatives

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 25, 2011, 06:36 PM »

Am I the only person who gets the feeling that the entire world economy is one big confidence game sham?

You mean it's not? 

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Living Room / Re: PHP... is the name self-realizing?

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 25, 2011, 06:33 PM »

One thing I could use some guidance on is if it's better to begin learning PHP "in the raw" and move to a framework later or to start in a framework which has an emphasis on "getting started" (CakePHP, CodeIgniter, etc.)?

I would recommend you start with basic PHP.  It's use is ubiquitous and, like .NET, there are plentiful code samples online; also like with .NET, many of those code samples suck   But seriously, PHP-usage is extremely broad, and if you get proficient at it, it's applications are equally broad.  You can always narrow you focus to a specific platform later, but even those (Azure, etc.) are built up from a basic web-programming language.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Freemake Software: Help With A Service

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 25, 2011, 06:06 PM »

You cannot say you fixed a "bug" and then say there was no issue.

Honesty folks, honesty.

+1.

The quote from the developer was fraught with double-speak.  Your rebuttal was spot-on, y0himba!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 25, 2011, 07:25 AM »

I've started using Lazarus.  Incredibly handy.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Time Clock Software

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 25, 2011, 07:14 AM »

PC app would work too, but then you could only have people log in from one location....

Not necessarily.  If the PC app sends data to an online database via PHP, for instance, you could still use the program in multiple locations, but have a centralized database online.

EDIT: I'm assuming employees could use various computers around your business site(s) to "punch-in"?

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Living Room / Re: software trials

« Last post by kyrathaba on July 25, 2011, 07:03 AM »

The only bought software I have on my PC is software that shipped pre-installed.  Everything else is freeware created by others or myself.